Etienne

I can't believe this bug hasn't been fixed since 2017... Come on guys this is basic feature for an illustration tool! I've been a long time user of Affinity Designer but I'm getting more and more frustrated (it's like the "select same color tool" that has been asked 4 years ago). So much that I've stopped recommending AD, without this bug patched it's just a broken illustration tool.
I hope you will change my mind and bring a fix asap.

I can't believe this bug hasn't been fixed since 2017... Come on guys this is basic feature for an illustration tool! I've been a long time user of Affinity Designer but I'm getting more and more frustrated (it's like the "select same color tool" that has been asked 4 years ago). So much that I've stopped recommending AD, without this bug patched it's just a broken illustration tool.
I hope you will change my mind and bring a fix asap.

+1 for this feature, it's a critical one for me too.

+1 for this feature, it's a critical one for me too.

I suggest that Edit/Preferences (or elsewhere if more appropriate) should allow the user to choose the default to be used.
First suggestion is for Raw Persona, CROP, on the Context Toolbar, MODE: allow one of the drop down values to be the default (would save having to always choose it from the list. e.g. Original Ratio becomes the default.
Also, on the Context Toolbar, OVERLAY, allow to set the default, e.g. Golden Spiral
 
Second suggestion, Photo Persona, on File/Export dialogue, allow one of the Presets to be selected as the default rather than have to choose it every time.
 
Small changes, but when you have to mouse/click select to do these things for every photo it wastes time.

Like p10n said, it was really great, if Affinity go to:
the folder, where the file is saved by clicking on SAVE AS the last export folder, by export with STRG+ALT+SHIFT+S And additionaly the possibility to set different save path for the slices and store it in the affinity files.
At this moment, i must navigate through my complete folder structur, when
save a file (save or save as) export file export slice and because the behavior with this 'save as' problem i save many files in the wrong location. After that i begin to search the project files, because the path is not shown under recent files and i can't get the path with the 'save as' option.
 
In the Affinity Photo i missed the option to export multiple layers with the document size. When i creat slices from the layers, they will have the layer size. And if i export the background slice, i must export it for every layer individually. Or i must resize every slice to fit the document size.
 
This is a really bad behavior and cost much time. It is a really good software but this is much better at Adobe Photoshop
 
Some other Things:
Is it possible to copy effects from one layer to another?
Is there an option for layer composition (in german 'Ebenenkomposition' in Photoshop)? 
 
Best,
Timo
 
 
 

Yes, more options for the directories (defaults, as common defaults) are needed. 
 
- Save Affinity file to same location as the opened file by default, unless otherwise pointed elsewhere.
- Export file to same location as the opened file, unless pointed elsewhere.
- Remember different Export and Save As -directories per file opened (file from C: doesn't get offered being saved where file from D: got opened)
 
 
It would be nice to be able just unpack package full of image files, open to Affinity Photo and save file and get it saved to "Affinity" directory after pointing in first save time. Then get export as well saved to "Export" directory after pointing the first time there.
 
It would speed up the processing multiple files in same directory (detect the directory path is it same as "Session" or is it as "Project".
 
 

+1
 
I'm working with branding and I need to be able to export to DWG.
Thanks!

Yes exactly! But I talked a bit too quick, Affinity Designer calculates the rotation angle and apply it in the Transform panel so that it's really easy to go back to 0° angle. This is genius and in my opinion the best way to do it :)!
 
 
 
Thank you MEB and thanks for your answers :)!
Regarding my first question what I usually do is :
- First I move an object and press the alt key at the same time so that it's a copy of my object that get moved and the object itself ;
- Then I press ⌘ (cmd) + J so that my object is duplicated and moved automatically (it's pretty useful when creating patterns for example).
So I am trying to do the exact same thing with the new rotation center function but the first step is not working (if I press the alt key while rotating my object it is not copied but only moved). Is it more clear?